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Black Athena : Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that Western civilization was born on the so-called Dark Continent? For almost two centuries, Western...
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
1987.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface and Acknowledgments; Transcriptions and Phonetics; Maps and Charts; Introduction; The Previous Volumes and Their Reception; "Classics Has Been Misunderstood"; Anathema from a G.O.M.; Outline of Volume 3; Chapter 1: Historical Linguistics and the Image of Ancient Greek; Nineteenth-Century Romantic Linguistics: The Tree and the Family; Saussure and the Twentieth-Century Epigones of Nineteenth-Century Indo-European Studies; Ramification or Interlacing; Chapter 2: The "Nostratic" and "Euroasiatic" Hyper- and Super-Families; Nostratic and Euroasiatic.
- Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of Nostratic and EuroasiaticGordon Childe and Colin Renfrew; Language and Genetics; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Afroasiatic, Egyptian and Semitic; The Origins of African Languages and the Development of Agriculture in Africa; The Origins and Spread of Afroasiatic; Conclusion; Chapter 4: The Origins of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European and Their Contacts with Other Languages; The Origins and Diffusion of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European; Loans from Other Languages into PIH; Development of an Indo-European Gender System Based on Sex; Conclusion.
- Chapter 5: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 1, PhonologyGreek: Result of a Linguistic Shift or of Language Contact?; The Elements of the Greek Linguistic Amalgam; The Phonologies of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European; Phonological Developments from PIE to Greek; Conclusion; Chapter 6: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 2, Morphological and Syntactical Developments; Morphology; Syntax; Summary on Syntactical Changes; Conclusion; Chapter 7: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 3, Lexicon; Introduction; The Study of Lexical Borrowings.
- Ancient Greeks' Sense of Lexical BorrowingLoans from Afroasiatic into Greek and into Albanian or Armenian; Conclusion; Chapter 8: Phonetic Developments in Egyptian, West Semitic and Greek Over the Last Three Millennia BCE, as Reflected in Lexical Borrowings; Introduction; Semitic; Egyptian; Conclusion; Chapter 9: Greek Borrowings from Egyptian Prefixes, Including the Definite Particles; Introduction; Greek Borrowings from Egyptian Definite Article Prefixes; The Egyptian Word 'pr' ""House, Temple, Palace""; R-""entry"" or Local Prefix; "Causal Prefix."
- Greek Borrowings from Egyptian Verbs Beginning with d t)Conclusion; Chapter 10: Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 1; 1. Ntr/K3; 2. 'nh (ankh); 3. M(w)dw, mu'thoS; 4. Sb3; 5. Dr, R-dr, drw; 6. VMwr, 'M3't', Moi'pa, Meipomai and 'Mm3't', Ma; 7. Hpr; Conclusion; Chapter 11: Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 2; nfr (w)/ms; nfr/ms; Conclusion; Chapter 12: Sixteen Minor Roots; Introduction; Conclusion; Chapter 13: Semitic Sibilants; Introduction; Loans of Sibilants from Canaanite into Greek; Lateral Fricatives; Sheltered /s/ sC / 's'/ before Consonants; Conclusion.